Teen suicides now outnumber homicides -- and there's a terrifying reason why

For the first time in over two decades, more teenagers are committing suicide than homicide.

And according to research presented in a recent article in The Atlantic, excerpted from a book written by San Diego State University psychologist Jean Twenge, smartphones may deserve a lot of the blame.

"As teens have started spending less time together, they have become less likely to kill one another," Twenge wrote, "and more likely to kill themselves."

Over the past decade, psychologists have come to see a picture in which young, developing brains are pitted against the power of brightly-coloured notifications, relentless pocket vibrations, and addicting apps. The byproduct has been an increase in disorders such as depression and anxiety, which sometimes turn fatal.

Twenge's research has indicated that while suicide rates aren't the highest they have ever been -- that peak came in the early 1990s, before smartphones emerged -- the proliferation of screen-based devices and social media have fundamentally changed how people interact for the worse.

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Teen suicides now outnumber homicides -- and there's a terrifying reason why

Teen suicides now outnumber homicides -- and there's a terrifying reason why

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